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The Abortion I Didn’t Have: I never thought about ending my pregnancy. Instead, at 19, I erased the future I had imagined for myself. (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/longreads

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I couldn’t consider abortion or adoption, but the weird thing is I also couldn’t consider having a baby. I never decided; I never chose. Somewhere in there it became more likely that I was having a baby, but that didn’t make it any more real to me.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't do this...this is what right wingers do and they say well she should have kept her legs closed.

You're right that she chose but it wasn't when she decided to have sex it was when she decided NOT to have an abortion.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Oh no, I don't blame her for that.
I blame her for not using contraceptives, not getting abortion. I ridicule her for not not owning her mistakes. She did choose multiple times even. I blame society for brainwashing people with religion and making braindead situations like this a reality.